Basic Laravel deployment script

artisan.php

<?php

// app/start/artisan.php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Register The Artisan Commands
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Each available Artisan command must be registered with the console so
| that it is available to be called. We'll register every command so
| the console gets access to each of the command object instances.
|
*/

Artisan::add(new DeployCommand());

composer.json

{
    // Other composer.json stuff...
    
    "require-dev": {
        "phpseclib/phpseclib": "0.3.*"
    }
}

DeployCommand.php

<?php

// app/commands/DeployCommand.php

use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;

class DeployCommand extends Command
{
    /**
     * The console command name
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $name = 'deploy';

    /**
     * The console command description
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $description = 'Deploy the application to a server';

    /**
     * The server configuration
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $config = array();

    /**
     * The SFTP client
     *
     * @var Net_SFTP
     */
    protected $sftp;

    /**
     * Create a new command instance
     *
     * @return  void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return  void
     */
    public function fire()
    {
        $this->verifyServer();
        $this->buildArchive();
        $this->moveToServer();
        $this->runServerCommands();
        $this->cleanUp();
    }

    /**
     * Verify that the specified server exists in the config
     *
     * @return  void
     */
    protected function verifyServer()
    {
        $server = $this->argument('server');
        $config = Config::get("deployments.{$server}");

        if (is_null($config)) {
            $this->error("Environment \"{$server}\" does not exist");
            exit;
        }

        $this->config = $config;
    }

    /**
     * Build an archive of the local files
     *
     * @return  void
     */
    protected function buildArchive()
    {
        $this->comment('Building archive...');
        exec('git archive HEAD --format=tar | gzip > project.tar.gz');
    }

    /**
     * Copy the archive to the server
     *
     * @return  void
     */
    protected function moveToServer()
    {
        $this->comment('Moving archive to server...');
        $this->sftp = new Net_SFTP($this->config['host']);

        if (!$this->sftp->login($this->config['user'], $this->config['password'])) {
            $this->error('Could not connect to server');
            exit;
        }

        $this->sftp->chdir($this->config['path']);
        $this->sftp->put('project.tar.gz', 'project.tar.gz', NET_SFTP_LOCAL_FILE);
    }

    /**
     * Run commands on the server
     *
     * @return  void
     */
    protected function runServerCommands()
    {
        $this->comment('Executing commands on server...');

        $commands = array();
        $commands[] = "cd {$this->config['path']}";
        $commands[] = 'tar -xzf project.tar.gz';
        $commands[] = './composer.phar self-update';
        $commands[] = './composer.phar install --no-dev';
        $commands[] = '/usr/local/bin/php artisan migrate';
        $commands[] = 'rm project.tar.gz';

        echo $this->sftp->exec(implode('; ', $commands));
    }

    /**
     * Miscellaneous cleanup
     *
     * @return  void
     */
    protected function cleanUp()
    {
        $this->comment('Cleaning up...');
        exec('rm project.tar.gz');

        $this->info('Finished!');
    }

    /**
     * Get the console command arguments
     *
     * @return  array
     */
    protected function getArguments()
    {
        return array(
            array('server', InputArgument::REQUIRED, 'The deployment server'),
        );
    }

    /**
     * Get the console command options
     *
     * @return  array
     */
    protected function getOptions()
    {
        return array();
    }
}

deployments.php

<?php

// app/config/deployments.php

return array(
    'production' => array(
        'host' => 'myserver.com',
        'user' => 'ssh_user',
        'password' => 'ssh_password',
        'path' => '/path/to/project/root',
    ),
);

Thank you for the script !
Is the "rm project.tar.gz" necessary in the runServerCommands() ? it's called again in the cleanUp() function.

By the way, do you have a version for laravel 5 projects ? Thank you ~